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Enforcement leaders are subject to scrutiny nor conduct. it bears repeating, senior i.g. staff conducted over 100 interviews and looked at 1.2 million documents and interviews with the former fbi director and attorney general. that is something that wouldn't happen in a lot of other countries and proud to be an american and proud to support the rule of law. in the united states, even the most senior officials that make mistakes are held to account. in its review, the i.g. found the former fbi director made serious accidents about the investigation into the e-mail matter. there's 37,000 hard wo...

All of those derogatory and prejudicial comments about hillary clinton in jury. so commenting publicly about unchartable conduct is not fbi policy then or now, correct? >> senator, i'm not aware of any policy that permitted it at the time. as i said, we're working on policies to make even more clear things that may have been less clear before. >> good. thank you. mr. horowitz, i'd like to follow up about the difference between gross negligence and extremely careless. you said it was just a political difference, but that's not true. there's a legal difference. in fact, you spent a few pages of ...

Derogatory information about uncharged persons? >> senator, my understanding has always been that the purpose behind those rules and norms is that prosecutors speak through charging documents and that the reason for that is because then the individuals who are charged have an opportunity to have their day in court and defend themselves. whereas the public states about uncharged conduct could afford that opportunity. >> could move over the line about prosecutorial conduct. >> it could. >> in fact, even where there is a charged person, do you need disclose derogatory inveries --

Report notes that criticizing individuals for conduct does not warrant prosecution. it's something that the department doesn't do. as a former prosecutor, as a citizen, a director of the fbi, do you agree that when director comey concluded that the conduct did not to a prosecutable offense that he should have refrained from commentary? >> senator, the policies of the department has governing commently about uncharged conduct are there nor a good reason. having been a prosecutor, i've been a defense attorney. i've had clients impacted by those policies and norms there there for a reason and i e...